Name _______________
Stalking
Forensics
Use the Study and link provided to answer questions 1-3.
http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/psychnews;36/12/8
1. Provide statistics on who has been stalked and is their a difference between genders of the victims?
2. What is stalking?
3. In what ways can stalkers communicate with their victims?
Use the Study and link provided to answer question number 4.
http://personalitydisorders.suite101.com/article.cfm/stalking_crime
4. Identify Mullen’s five categories of stalkers. Then describe the personality traits of that category.
Category
Describe the Personality Traits of this Category of Stalker
Please visit http://www.stalkingalert.com/articlesofinterest.htm and read the article on “The Madonna
Stalking Case”. How would you classify her stalker?
Please research a celebrity that has been stalked and provide a quick overview of the situation. Be sure to
include:
 The identity of the victim (celebrity)
 The identity of the stalker
 When did it occur
 Using Mullen’s information to clinically assess and identify the category of stalker.
 Identify the major steps taken by the victim to deter the stalkers actions.
o Include any incorrect actions and how the “stalker would interpret what they were saying”
 What was the outcome?
What would worry about this note?
In Class Objective: To design a stalker profile and a subtle note that would exemplify one of the various types
of stalkers. Please in your profile provide your Mulen classification, their background/history, mind set to
Obviously you will use profanities, this activity is to be taken seriously as it will be assessed.
Timeframe: 2 class periods, Due: __________
Assessment: You will provide me with a copy of your letter and a personality profile
Using the Study and link provided answer questions 5-9.
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=50316
5. Which two types of stalkers are most likely to assault there victim?
6. Describe the mindset of a stalker.
7. When should a person (victim) be concerned?
8. What actions should be taken?
9. What should a victim never do?
Using the Study and link provided and question 10.
http://www.aic.gov.au/conferences/stalking/Darcy.pdf
10. Identify five findings from the study ‘Stalkers referred to a forensic psychiatry centre for treatment’
(Mullen, Pathe, Purcell, Stuart, 1999: 1244)
Using the link provided answers question 11. http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/abstract/170/1/12
11. Discuss the impact of stalkers on their victims
Read the following article and by using a highlighter identify the areas of concern that you would have as a
Forensic psychiatrist .
30th April 2008
A former mental patient accused of stalking Oscar-nominated actress Uma Thurman allegedly sent her a chilling note
saying: "One day I`ll marry you."
Jack Jordan, also sent the Kill Bill star a picture of a bride with her head ripped off and a letter insisting "My hands should
be on your body at all times," a court heard yesterday and the 37-year-old, who is said to have shown up on her film set
once, apparently wrote her an e-mail to her "menaced" family warning: "I will kill myself if I do not get to see Uma
Thurman within 24 to 48 hours."
In one rambling letter it`s believed he told the star: "I fell in love with you. I think you should call me up, let me come and
watch you act on set some more, we should date, move in together and then get married."
Miss Thurman`s lawyer, Colleen Walsh, told the Manhattan jury yesterday: "Somebody has to tell the defendant: `Enough
is enough.`The price of fame is not this high." But George Vomvolakis, defending, said in opening statements that
"Creepy" Jordan "does not think the way you and I think. "He doesn`t know the boundaries you and I know. He thinks it`s
romantic." He told the jury that Jordan is an eccentric who fell in love with an unattainable beauty. "Creepy? Yes.
Obsessed? Yes. Criminal? No." he said.
Miss Thurman`s parents Robert and Nena Thurman told the court in New York that their two grandchildren were
“menaced” by Jordan, who he and the Pulp Fiction start were “predestined” to fall in love.
Dr Thurman, a professor at the city`s Columbia University, said he received several worrying emails throughout 2005
from Jordan, claiming his daughter`s children from her marriage to Ethan Hawke — Maya, nine, and Levon, six — did
not exist.
He said Jordan was a “menacing presence in the minds of the children” and added: “It still is.” After one email in which
Jordan said he had fallen in love with Thurman, her father said: “This was an air raid siren in my head.”
Asked how his daughter felt about the emails, he said: “She was upset and always feared for her children. She`s a real
heavy duty mom. Whenever someone shows up physically, it always makes her defensive about her children, more than
about herself.” Dr Thurman said: “I felt frightened for Uma. These people think they own her image and think they can
say what they want, do what they want and show up any time.”
Dr Thurman read email extracts to the court. The often nonsensical text included frequent declarations of love.
On February 7, 2005, Jordan wrote: “I feel in love sometimes and at other times terrified, and test the razor`s edge on a
ledge.”
In an email sent to Dr Thurman but addressed to the actress, Jordan referred to her Kill Bill film, saying: “I fell in love
with you. When you said wiggle your big toe, I did. I`m such an idiot.” Jordan described a dream in which he walked off
into the mountains. He added: “I would simply quit eating food until I died or Uma found me.”
Nena Thurman said Jordan called her in spring 2005. “He told me, in so many words, that he believed that he and my
daughter had a predestined life, that they were meant to be together. “I said to him in no uncertain terms that this was
really a fantasy ... and when I said that he switched to saying that, in that case, then there was no meaning to life for him
so he would have to kill himself and probably very soon.”
Jordan rang the doorbell of Thurman`s Greenwich Village home twice a day for at least 10 days and tried to hand-deliver
a letter to Thurman, 38, on the New York set of My Super Ex-Girlfriend.
Make-up artist Richard Dean told the court Jordan turned up outside her trailer in November 2005 and delivered an
envelope. It contained a child`s confirmation card which had a message written inside it getting closer and closer to the
card`s centre. Thurman was distracted and visibly shaking after receiving the envelope, he said.
Jordan, who lives with his parents in Maryland, is on £5,000 bail. The trial was adjourned.